Thursday, August 28, 2008

It can only be described as ironic justice that on the week I post the virtue of my Vista setup that it crashes into oblivion. NO WARNING - simple, quiet, dead. I didn't even get the courtesy of a blue screen of death. Not sure if it is a case of simple file corruption or if there is a drive issue. Fortunately my essential data is backed up on a redundant drive. Doesn't make the next week fun - just means I'm not playing in traffic. SpinRite is doing its thing tonight as I sleep to try and salvage the drive and it's data ... not holding my breath. Until I get things back up and running please have patience with my posts as I am frantically trying to get my production machine back into a usable state. The machine boots up to a black screen with my mouse still visible ... but that is it. A bit odd. I am not sure if were able to fix the issue if I would trust the install. Perhaps this would be a good time to do an Ultimate install? I will have to think on that for the evening.

It wasn't the GS optimization - I have been running the machine for months now. I am a fiddler - such is my curse. I mess will little things on the computer so I probably jacked it up. Anywho - picked up a new drive today and the re-install is going fine. Tombocheck - great idea on the ghost. After I recover the data from my corrupted disk I will Ghost on to that. I have to go check on the machine now - later.

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